Freezing point
By: Karen Dionne.
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: A Jove book
Publisher: Jove Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780515145366
Subjects: Ice -- Arctic regions -- Fiction; Drinking water -- Fiction; Terrorists -- Fiction; Women ecologists -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Table of contents: title: Fresh water has become an increasingly scarce luxury for many people around the globe. Environmentalist Ben Maki believes he can fix the supply and demand issue by melting the Antarctic ice. However, many doubters think it can't be done and skeptics feel the unregulated corporate world, which Maki, belongs to, will keep supply low in order to insure the price is exorbitant and water trickles down at the rate the market place deems profitable.; title: Maki and the world's leading scientists and technocrats begin a trial run of his model. However, disease attacks the researchers killing several and Antarctic rat packs swarm all over the human bases. Maki's dream is shattered as he and his peers struggle to escape the deadly continent.